The purpose of this study is to undertake an analysis of the characteristics of the social adaptability of immigrant wives in korean rural areas and the relation between the characteristics of their social adaptability and other variables, eg, social acculturation, resilience, perceived discrimination, social support and literacy power.
The research participants were 9 immigrant wives who have been in Korea more than 5 years. They were interviewed for 2 months.
The result of this research is as follows: Firstly, their jobs in mother countries were diverse. Their motives to emigrate to Korea were also diverse but exhibited manifest commonalities. Secondly, mostly their first impression was positive because of kindness of korean people, the good food, and four beautiful seasons, however they often experienced challenges when serious conflicts arose between them and their husbands or between them and their mother-in-laws. Thirdly, they have formed family relationship especially when they brought their children. Fourthly, they experienced perceived discrimination when neighbours looked down on them as a foreigner. Fifthly, most of the research participants were of the integration acculturation attitudes. Other participants belonged to the marginalization or assimilation attitudes. Sixthly, most of them did not have lots of social activities. Seventhly, the level of research participants’s resilience is higher than their mean value. Their trust in themselves were strong and that was the driving force to overcome the difficulties of living in korea. Lastly, all of participants who had integration orientation of acculturation were satisfied with their lives in korea. The others who were of the assimilation or marginalization orientation were not so satisfied with their lives as those whose orientation were integration.
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